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Course Descriptions
The 2008-2009 program is underway and is no longer accepting applications
Single courses may be available
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Next program starts:
Autumn 2009
Details will be posted in Spring
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Program location:
UW campus, Seattle
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The course curriculum is aligned to move from team development (forming, storming) to team leadership (norming, performing) and to team management (evaluating, negotiating and improving). Participants can start the program with any course. However, the majority start in the autumn and complete the courses sequentially as a cohort.
Classes meet on the Seattle campus one weekday evening per week.
Interested in taking a single class? Some courses (designated by a  below) may be open on a space-available basis to professionals who are not seeking the certificate. See Single-Course Enrollment for details.
Autumn Course
Team Development
Schedule: (10 sessions) Mondays, 6:00-9:00 p.m., Sept. 29-Dec. 8, 2008; $1,399; 3 CEUs.
Instructor: Herbert Hoffman
This course provides the assessment tools, skills and practice to move a team forward through the forming and storming stages of change to lay the foundation for achieving high performance. Topics include:
- How do I best apply my own strengths and style to work effectively with my teams and organization?
- What's going on in the organization? What needs to be done to be successful? When and why are teams the way to succeed?
- How do the teams' efforts and results nest with the rest of the organization's mission, vision and strategy?
- What should I be doing to keep members on the team, and focus their efforts, even when they don't work for me?
- What steps can I take to get the right kinds of people, and be sure they know their roles and deliverables?
- How do I get the team to develop norms and values that will foster high productivity and positive working relationships?
- What communication tools work best with team members, customers, suppliers and stakeholders?
The course fee includes costs for a set of skill and style assessments.
How to sign up for individual enrollment in this course
Winter Course
Team Leadership
Schedule: (10 sessions) Mondays, 6:00-9:00 p.m., Jan. 5-Mar. 16, 2009 (no class on Jan 21 or Feb 18); $1,099; 3 CEUs.
Instructor: E. Arthur Self, with Co-Instructors/Guest Lecturers: John Dresel, Sabina Nawaz, and Gary Wright.
This course goes to the next level. It takes a whole systems approach to leadership, equipping managers to ask the right questions, drive change and establish practices that will enable high performance. To do this, the instructors ask students critical questions about their organizational and departmental challenges, then guide students towards the answers that become the keys to successfully driving their businesses forward and improving bottom line results.
Some of the key questions our students will learn to answer:
- How do I objectively assess where my business is today without biases?
- Is my current team really the right team to move my business forward?
- Does my team really understand my vision and goals for the business?
- How do I reach the point where I trust the information given to me by my team?
- How do I choose the right strategic initiatives to increase profitability for the year?
- How do I measure time-lines and track accountability more affectively?
- How do I identify and react to the roadblocks ahead that may prevent me from completing key initiatives?
How to sign up for individual enrollment in this course
Spring Course
Team Management
Schedule: (10 sessions) Mondays, 6:00-9:00 p.m., Mar. 30-June 8, 2009; $1,099; 3 CEUs.
Instructors: Carolyn Gellerman, with Co-Instructor John Morefield
A combination of management techniques, tools and skills will be honed in this course to equip team leaders with the ability to achieve sustained high performance, overcome crises or systemic challenges and manage cross-group conflict. This course will enhance the team manager's ability to build the trust, respect and openness required for sustained success. Topics include:
- Where are my team members most in need of coaching and training?
- How do I most effectively give feedback to and receive feedback from team members and stakeholders?
- How can group decisions be made more effectively, goals be set more successfully and conflicts be resolved more smoothly?
- Where are the most acute areas of resource shortage, conflict or risk that could inhibit team members from achieving their goals and the team mission?
- How do I build support networks and prepare for the inevitable changes and crises that occur as a team manager?
- How do I motivate team members to achieve sustained high performance and address changes in the business environment?
How to sign up for individual enrollment in this course
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